As Ivan Ilyich lies dying he begins to re-evaluate his life, searching for meaning that will make sense of his sufferings. In "The Death of Ivan Ilyich" and the other works in this volume, Tolstoy conjures characters who, tested to the limit, reveal glorious and unexpected reserves of courage, or baseness of a near inhuman kind. Two vivid parables and "The Forged Coupon", a tale of criminality, explore class relations after the emancipation of the serfs in 1861 and the connection between an ethical life and worldly issues. In "Master and Workman" Tolstoy creates one of his most gripping dramas about human relationships put to the test in an extreme situation. "The Death of Ivan Ilyich" is an existential masterpiece, a biting satire that recounts with extraordinary power the final illness and death of a bourgeois lawyer. In his Introduction Andrew Kahn explores Tolstoy's moral concerns and the stylistic features of these late stories, sensitively translated by Nicolas Pasternak Slater. - Back cover.
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ISBN:9780199669882 (pbk.)
ISBN:0199669880 (pbk.)
Physical Description:print xl, 218 pages ; 20 cm.
Publisher:Oxford, United Kingdom :Oxford University Press,2015.
Includes bibliographical references (pages xxxiii-xxxv).
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Machine generated contents note: Two Old Men -- How Much Land Does A Man Need? -- Forged Coupon -- Master And Workman -- Alyosha Pot -- Death Of Ivan Ilyich.
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